"Amyloid pathology" refers to the development of abnormal protein clumps called amyloids in the body, which can lead to certain diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. These amyloids build up and interfere with normal cellular function, causing damage to tissues and organs in the body.
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Although genetic deletion of BACE1 results in abolished
amyloid pathology in AD model mice, it also results in neurodevelopmental phenotypes such as hypomyelination and synaptic loss, observed in schizophrenia and autism - like phenotype.
In 13 - month old transgenic rats with
advanced amyloid pathology we revealed marked contextual fear conditioning deficits in homozygote animals.
«We saw no reason not to believe that if amyloid seeds entered the human brain, they would also
cause amyloid pathology in the same way,» says Jucker.
The paper by Collinge and his colleagues has sparked a worldwide hunt for
similar amyloid pathology in autopsied brains, and a small study published this January revealed a handful of related cases.
Taken together, our results demonstrate that the intraneuronal development of AD - like
amyloid pathology includes a mixture of molecular species (Aβ, APP and CTFs) of which a considerable component is Aβ; and that the early presence of these species within neurons has deleterious effects in the CNS, even before the development of full - blown AD - like pathology.
Further to it, we have demonstrated that the early
CNS amyloid pathology is reflected and can be monitored in the rat CSF.
It was thanks to this routine work that the cluster of unusual cases emerged of people who had clearly died of CJD, but who also had obvious signs
of amyloid pathology in their grey matter and cerebral blood vessels.
However, with increasing age and
advancing amyloid pathology, fear conditioning deficits severely progressed in homozygote animals (Figure 6d - f).
To examine the evolution of the AD -
like amyloid pathology we incubated sections with the monoclonal antibody McSA1 [36](MediMabs, Montreal, Canada) at 1:4000 in PBS - T with 5 % NGS overnight at 4 °C.
Small - vessel disease could provoke
amyloid pathology while AD - associated cerebral amyloid pathology may lead to auxiliary vascular damage,» researchers conclude.
The scientists hypothesize that the IVIg acts as an immune modulator, and this immune modulation is responsible for the reductions in
amyloid pathology.
And they can not entirely rule out the possibility that the treatments themselves — or the patients» original medical conditions — caused
the amyloid pathology.
«This Image of the Year study begins to address that fundamental question and leads to the next investigational study to determine the relative contributions of tau and
amyloid pathology to neuronal dysfunction.
The examination of
the amyloid pathology with super-resolution microscopy permitted us to further reveal a clear separation of the subcellular location of Aβ - immunoreactivity from that of APP / CTFs.
The present study revealed a consistent subcellular segregation of immunoreactive sites detected by Aβ - specific antibodies and pab27576 within neurons of different brain areas, at pre - and post-plaque stages of
the amyloid pathology.
Note the progression of auditory and contextual fear conditioning deficits as
the amyloid pathology advanced from pre - to post-plaque stages.
A role for Aβ - mediated toxicity is further supported by the fact that cognitive deficits progressed according with the incremental accumulation of
the amyloid pathology, in particular, increased levels of soluble Aβ42 (Figure 8a).
Therefore, fear conditioning deficits were detectable at early stages of
the amyloid pathology, in the absence of amyloid plaques.
Correlation between average levels of soluble (a, b) and insoluble (c, d) Aβ42 and Aβ40 and the magnitude of cognitive impairments in transgenic animals, during the temporal progression of the AD - like
amyloid pathology.
Given the lack of definitive AD biomarkers in humans, transgenic animal models of
the amyloid pathology continue to be valuable tools to examine molecular changes preceding the deposition of amyloid plaques and associated pathology (i.e. late inflammation, neuritic dystrophy, etc.).
Our recent study has demonstrated that peripheral amylin treatment reduces
the amyloid pathology in the brain of Alzheimer's disease (AD) mouse models, and improves their learning and memory.
Abstract: Our recent study has demonstrated that peripheral amylin treatment reduces
the amyloid pathology in the brain of Alzheimer's disease (AD) mouse models, and improves their learning and memory.
Using weighted gene co-expression network analysis, we discovered that amylin treatment influenced two gene modules linked with
amyloid pathology: 1) a module related to proinflammation and transport / vesicle process that included a hub gene of Cd68, and 2) a module related to mitochondria function that included a hub gene of Atp5b.